Saccharum angustifolium(Nees) Trin.

WFO wfo-0000896529 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Saccharum angustifolium, photographed by Daniel Dias
fig. a Daniel Dias, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201723268
Saccharum angustifolium, photographed by Daniel Dias
fig. b Daniel Dias, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199859519
Saccharum angustifolium, photographed by Leonel Roget
fig. c Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171249619
Saccharum angustifolium, photographed by Juan Manuel Barreneche
fig. d Juan Manuel Barreneche, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 58108551
Saccharum angustifolium, photographed by Daniel Dias
fig. e Daniel Dias, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201723238
Saccharum angustifolium, photographed by Daniel Dias
fig. f Daniel Dias, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 199859587
Saccharum angustifolium, photographed by Leonel Roget
fig. g Leonel Roget, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171249623
Saccharum angustifolium, photographed by Daniel Dias
fig. h Daniel Dias, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 200031818

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Saccharum angustifolium is native: Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela Argentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastColombiaParaguayUruguayVenezuela
Native distribution of Saccharum angustifolium, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Paraguay PAR
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 12 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Erianthus angustifolius Nees
  • Erianthus angustifolius var. angustifolius
  • Erianthus angustifolius var. coloratus Andersson
  • Erianthus biaristatus (Hack.) Swallen
  • Erianthus divaricatus var. angustifolius (Nees) Hack.
  • Erianthus fischerianus Rupr. ex Döll
  • Erianthus saccharoides subsp. angustifolius (Nees) Hack.
  • Erianthus saccharoides subsp. biaristatus (Hack.) Hack.
  • Erianthus saccharoides var. angustifolius (Nees) Kuntze
  • Erianthus saccharoides var. biaristatus Hack.
  • Erianthus saccharoides var. neesii Hack.
  • Saccharum alopecuroides subvar. angustifolium (Nees) Roberty

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.